Veterinary Schools: The 2015 Top 50 List of the World's Best Schools Has Been Released

  The first international ranking of the best veterinary schools has just been published. It highlights 50 of the world’s leading universities in the field of veterinary science—new additions this year to the QS World University Rankings*—spanning 17 different countries… with the exception of France. [2025 Rankings: Click here] In the 2015 rankings of the world’s best veterinary schools, UC Davis (California) takes first place, followed by Cornell University (New York). The two American universities are ahead of the Royal Veterinary College in London, which ranks third out of 327 institutions. Thus, the United Kingdom tops the list of countries outside North America. To measure the reputation and performance of a school or university, the QS Top Universities World Rankings are based on three components: academic reputation (extensive surveys of academics and faculty), graduate employability , and research impact (publications in the Scopus database). Since 2013, another metric has also been included: the h-index . It measures both the productivity and the impact of the work published by a scientist or academic. It can also be applied to a group of scientists (a department, a university, a country) or to a scientific journal. The United States leads this ranking of the best veterinary schools by a wide margin, with 20 universities among the top 50. As the global leader, UC Davis offers programs in 34 different disciplines, and its hospital provides clinical care to more than 48,000 animals each year. Also in North America, Canada has three of its veterinary science universities ranked among the world’s best. In Europe, in addition to the five British universities in the top ten, the United Kingdom has two others in the top 50, for a total of seven. Next come Spain and the Netherlands, the only two European countries with two veterinary schools in the ranking. The eight other European countries represented have only one institution ranked among the top 50. And France is not among them… Elsewhere in the world, the University of Sydney is the highest-ranked of Australia’s four institutions. New Zealand is represented by Massey University. Brazil is the only Latin American country represented in the top 50 veterinary schools, with two institutions ranked. Finally, only one Asian institution made the list: Seoul National University in South Korea.   * http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2015/veterinary-science#sorting=rank+region=213+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=  

2015 World Ranking of Veterinary Science Universities

1 University of California, Davis (United States)

2 Cornell University (United States)

3 Royal Veterinary College, University of London (United Kingdom)

4 University of Guelph (Canada)

5 University of Utrecht (Netherlands)

6 Texas A&M University (United States)

7 University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)

8 University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

9 University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

9 University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)

11 University of Sydney (Australia)

11 University of Bristol (United Kingdom)

13 Colorado State University (United States)

13 University of Minnesota (United States)

15 Massey University (New Zealand)

16 Wageningen University (Netherlands)

17 University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

17 University of Florida (United States)

19 University of Pennsylvania (United States)

20 North Carolina State University (United States)

21 Michigan State University (United States)

22 University of Queensland (Australia)

23 Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)

24 University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States)

25 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)

25 Ohio State University (United States)

27 University of Ghent (Belgium)

28 University of Melbourne (Australia)

29 University of Missouri, Columbia (United States)

30 Purdue University (United States)

31 University of Georgia (United States)

32 University of Zurich (Switzerland)

33 University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria)

34 Tufts University (United States)

35 Iowa State University (United States)

36 University of São Paulo (Brazil)

37 Washington State University (United States)

38 Murdoch University (Australia)

39 Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (Norway)

40 University College Dublin (Ireland)

41 Seoul National University (South Korea)

42 University of Montreal (Canada)

43 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)

43 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)

45 University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

45 Júlio de Mesquita Filho State University of São Paulo (Brazil)

47 University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

48 Kansas State University (United States)

49 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (United States)

50 Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)